Patents by Inventor Akira Tanaka

Akira Tanaka has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11476046
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and first and second inner electrodes that are laminated, and first and second outer electrodes. Each of the first inner electrodes includes a first opposing electrode portion and a first extending electrode portion. The first extending electrode portions at least positioned in a vicinity of the first and second principal surfaces in a lamination direction among the first inner electrodes include a first bent portion bent inward and a second bent portion bent outward in the lamination direction. A distance between vertices of the first and second bent portions in the lamination direction in the first inner electrodes positioned in the vicinity of the first and second principal surface in a lamination direction is larger than a distance in the first inner electrodes positioned in a central portion in the lamination direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220326632
    Abstract: [Object] An object of the invention is to provide a toner that can both achieve a higher level of low temperature fixability and suppression of the toner scattering. [Means of Achieving the Object] The disclosure is to provide a toner, including base-particles, and an external-additive, wherein a glass-transition temperature obtained from a DSC-curve at a second-warming of a THF-insoluble component is ?50° C. or higher and 10° C. or lower, wherein an average circularity of the toner is 0.975 or more and 0.985 or lower, wherein the toner satisfies the following formula: 1.5?Bt?0.025?Ct?3.0, wherein the Bt [m2/g] is a BET-specific-surface area of the toner-particles, and the Ct [%] is a coverage by the external-additive, and, at least a portion of a surface of the external-additive is coated with either an oxide of a metallic element, a hydroxide of the metallic element, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji MAKABE, Akira Tanaka, Hidekazu Kakinuma, Tsukiko Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11462353
    Abstract: A winding inductor component includes a core having a columnar shaft portion and a pair of support portions provided at both ends of the shaft portion. The wiring inductor component further includes terminal electrodes provided on the pair of support portions, respectively, and being non-magnetic bodies, and a wire wound around the shaft portion and having both end portions connected to the terminal electrodes of the pair of support portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11445921
    Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus according to an embodiment includes a calculating unit and a measuring unit. The calculating unit is configured to calculate information related to a pulse wave of a subject, on the basis of luminance information of a picture signal of the subject. The measuring unit is configured to measure a fluctuation of blood pressure of the subject based on an increase or a decrease in the information related to the pulse wave, in accordance with a site of the subject from which the picture signal was obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Makoto Yoshizawa, Norihiro Sugita, Makoto Abe, Tomoyuki Yambe, Noriyasu Homma, Kazuma Obara, Akira Tanaka, Yuki Horihata
  • Publication number: 20220293817
    Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a substrate having a first energy bandgap, a first semiconductor layers on the substrate, an active layer on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the active layer. The active layer includes a quantum well layer, and a first barrier layer between the first semiconductor layer and the quantum well layer. The first semiconductor layer has a second energy bandgap wider than the first energy bandgap. The quantum well layer has a third energy bandgap narrower than the first and second energy bandgaps. The second semiconductor layer has a fourth energy bandgap wider than the third energy bandgap. The substrate has a refractive index greater than a refractive index of the first semiconductor layer. The refractive index of the first semiconductor layer is not less than a refractive index of the first barrier layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Hideto Sugawara, Katsufumi Kondo, Masanobu Iwamoto, Kenji Isomoto, Hiroaki Ootsuka
  • Patent number: 11428944
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a wearable device configured to be attached to a display configured to display a display image. The wearable device features an optical component set featuring a lens, a first user operable member configured to set an adjustment value relating to a projection angle of the visual image, and a second user operable member configured to set an adjustment value relating to at least one of a color tone or a brightness of the visual image. A position of the visual image is changed by adjusting the projection angle of the visual image using the first user operable member so that the visual image is displayed at a position based on at least one of a shape or a size of the head of the user. The color tone or the brightness of the visual image is changed using the second user operable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Kenichi Doniwa, Hiroaki Komaki, Hiroki Kumagai, Takashi Sudo, Nobuhide Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 11417457
    Abstract: The wire wound inductor component includes a core including a columnar shaft portion extending in a first direction and first and second support portions at both end portions of the shaft portion, first and second terminal electrodes provided respectively on the first and second support portions, and a wire wound around the shaft portion. A distance between an upper surface of the shaft portion and a top surface of the first and second support portions in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction is defined as a top surface step, and a distance between a lower surface of the shaft portion and a bottom surface of the first and second support portions in the second direction is defined as a bottom surface step. The top and bottom surface steps are identical with each other, and the top and bottom surface steps are less than or equal to 50 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Sunao Noya, Tomotaka Gotohda
  • Patent number: 11411032
    Abstract: An imaging device comprises a sensor substrate including a pixel array that includes at least a first pixel. The first pixel includes an avalanche photodiode including a light receiving region, a cathode, and an anode. The first pixel includes a wiring layer electrically connected to the cathode and arranged in the sensor substrate such that the wiring layer is in a path of incident light that exits the light receiving region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Yusuke Otake, Toshifumi Wakano
  • Patent number: 11391592
    Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure determines whether or not a route section is a linear section on the basis of positional relationship among nodes within the route section including three or more nodes, and, for a route section which is determined to be a linear section, forms and displays a line connecting a start node with a terminal node of the route section as an AR route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Toshiya Mori
  • Publication number: 20220216660
    Abstract: A connector includes a casing and a contact pin. The casing includes a storage portion. A connection body is mounted in the storage portion by being relatively displaced in a first direction. The contact pin is held by the casing. The contact pin includes an elastic contact part. The elastic contact part includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion. The first protrusion protrudes toward the storage portion. The second protrusion is separated from the first protrusion. The second protrusion faces a direction crossing the storage portion. The second protrusion protrudes in a direction crossing the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Masaya HIRASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220208148
    Abstract: An image display system includes a display unit displaying an image, a projection unit projecting in a target space a virtual image corresponding to the image with an output light of the display unit, a body unit provided thereto the display unit and the projection unit, and an image producing unit including a first correction unit and a second correction unit. The first correction unit performs a first correction processing of correcting, based on a first orientation signal indicative of a first orientation change of the body unit, a display position of the virtual image in the target space. The second correction unit performs a second correction processing of correcting, based on a second orientation signal indicative of a second orientation change of the body unit which is faster than the first orientation change, the display position of the virtual image in the target space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanaga TSUJI, Toshiya MORI, Ken'ichi KASAZUMI, Yoshiteru MINO, Tadashi SHIBATA, Nobuyuki NAKANO, Akira TANAKA, Shohei HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220201261
    Abstract: An image display apparatus according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an output section that outputs projection light along a predetermined axis; an irradiated member to be irradiated with the projection light; and a first optical member that is disposed downstream of the irradiated member on a light path of the projection light, and reflects or diffuses a portion of the projection light that has transmitted through the irradiated member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: TOMOHARU NAKAMURA, AKIRA TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220182733
    Abstract: A processor of a server includes: a keyword generator that narrows object images from video based on both activity information on the activity history of a user and a first level of narrowing down and generates candidate keywords, as candidate comments, by generating a candidate keyword for each of the images; an identifier that identifies one or more target keywords from among the candidate keywords generated by the keyword generator based on both the activity information and a second level of narrowing down; a comment generator that generates, for each of the one or more target keywords, a comment related to each target keyword; and an adjuster that adjusts the first level of narrowing down in the keyword generator and the second level of narrowing down in the identifier in accordance with processing information on processing performable by the keyword generator and processing performable by the identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Makoto MURASAKI, Mitsuhiro OGATA, Hiroki ISHIZUKA, Syougo IKEDA, Syou NANAO
  • Publication number: 20220159325
    Abstract: A method of reproducing audio content between a main terminal including a first speaker and a plurality of subsidiary terminals including a second speaker. Device specific identification (ID) information of the subsidiary terminals and association information for transmitting one of the audio data of the audio content to one of the subsidiary terminals are stored. The association information defines that one of the audio data of the audio content is associated with one of the device specific ID information. The subsidiary terminals transmit/receive with the main terminal and the device specific ID information is transmitted from the subsidiary terminals to the main terminal when connecting to the main terminal. The encoded audio data of the audio content is transmitted to the subsidiary terminals based on the association information, then is decoded and the subsidiary terminals output the audio data to the second speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki Kamimaki, Akira Date, Akira Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220133976
    Abstract: Provided is a photodynamic therapy device that enables efficient light irradiation of blood of a patient. A photodynamic therapy device (100) of this disclosure includes a cartridge (10) including a winding core and a tube arranged so as to be wound around the winding core, a casing (50) configured to accommodate the cartridge (10), and a light source (60), which is arranged inside the casing (50), and is configured to irradiate the tube with light. The tube arranged around the winding core has a cross section taken along a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the tube, which has a first dimension in a first direction and a second dimension in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The second dimension is smaller than the first dimension. The second direction is directed outward with respect to the winding core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: OTSUKA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Shinpei KAJIWARA
  • Patent number: 11315528
    Abstract: An image display system includes a display unit displaying an image, a projection unit projecting in a target space a virtual image corresponding to the image with an output light of the display unit, a body unit provided thereto the display unit and the projection unit, and an image producing unit including a first correction unit and a second correction unit. The first correction unit performs a first correction processing of correcting, based on a first orientation signal indicative of a first orientation change of the body unit, a display position of the virtual image in the target space. The second correction unit performs a second correction processing of correcting, based on a second orientation signal indicative of a second orientation change of the body unit which is faster than the first orientation change, the display position of the virtual image in the target space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanaga Tsuji, Toshiya Mori, Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Yoshiteru Mino, Tadashi Shibata, Nobuyuki Nakano, Akira Tanaka, Shohei Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220113138
    Abstract: A video control device includes a processor and a memory including a program that, when executed, causes the processor to perform operations including: obtaining a position of a vehicle determined by a satellite positioning system; obtaining an estimated position of the vehicle estimated based on dead reckoning; estimating a deviation in an orientation of the vehicle, based on the position of the vehicle determined by the satellite positioning system and the estimated position of the vehicle estimated based on the dead reckoning; calculating an estimated orientation of the vehicle, based on the deviation in the orientation of the vehicle estimated; and outputting the estimated orientation of the vehicle to a video display device that displays information which is based on the orientation of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Fumihito INUKAI, Toshiya MORI, Ken'ichi KASAZUMI
  • Publication number: 20220093331
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes alternately laminated therein, and two end surfaces opposing each other in a length direction, and two side surfaces opposing each other in a width direction, and two external electrodes respectively on the two end surfaces of the multilayer body. At least one of two opposed main surfaces of the multilayer ceramic capacitor includes raised portions provided respectively on one side and another side with a middle portion of the main surface interposed therebetween. The raised portions are each raised to become thicker in the lamination direction from the middle portion toward an outer periphery of the main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuyuki SHIMADA, Akira TANAKA, Shinichi KOKAWA
  • Patent number: 11277650
    Abstract: A contents receiving system can include a content receiver and a portable terminal storing ID information. The content receiver can further include: a receiving unit capable of receiving content and subsidiary content from at least one of a broadcast wave and a network; an output unit capable of outputting, as audio video content, a video and/or audio of the content received by the receiving unit; a transmission unit capable of transmitting the subsidiary content to the portable terminal, the transmission unit enabling information on a payment transaction corresponding to an ID information of the portable terminal to be transmitted to the portable terminal individually, the portable terminal including: a second transmission unit capable of receiving the subsidiary content and the information on the payment transaction transmitted from the transmission unit of the content receiver; and a processing unit for performing a processing regarding the payment transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Kamimaki, Akira Date, Akira Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220077220
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, a driving method therefor, and an electronic apparatus capable of acquiring a signal to detect phase difference and a signal to generate a high dynamic range image at the same time. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels that receives light of a same color is arranged under one on-chip lens. The plurality of pixels uses at least one pixel transistor in a sharing manner, some pixels out of the plurality of pixels are set to have a first exposure time, and other pixels are set to have a second exposure time shorter than the first exposure time. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Shohei SHIMADA